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Applications depend on user identity to protect critical resources, generate audit trails for regulatory compliance, and support identity-based functionality. Until recently, Web services and SOAs have lacked standards-based mechanisms for extending user identities to Web services. Consequently, implementing these important functions has been difficult, if not impossible, without introducing proprietary application-level extensions that breach Web services principals and introduce questionable security.
PingFederate Web Services (formerly PingTrust™) is a Security Token Server that extends Identity Management to Web services. With PingFederate Web Services, an optional add-on module for PingFederate, standards-based digital identity tokens are associated with Web service requests to provide enhanced services while simultaneously ensuring appropriate information access and regulatory accountability.
PingFederate Web Services includes libraries for integration with both Java and .NET Web Service Clients and Providers. It supports a variety of security token formats including SAML, X.509, username and Kerberos. It also includes a custom token SDK, enabling organizations to support their pre-existing custom token formats. PingFederate Web Services features a secure, Web-based administration console designed to simplify initial setup, certificate management and configuration of complex use cases. It is a high performance server with support for advanced clustering and failover configurations.
PingFederate Web Services is available for download. Once you have the software, request your free evaluation license key here.
